Form Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Manners form the great charm of women.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every form correctly seen is beautiful.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe